| Lyrics: | It all started here, she was a girl from the Mid-West
He was a stranger in a strange
land
Same old story, he came for the glory, she came looking for a young man's
hand
But they found bright lights and endless nights
And men just used her innocent
ways
He found it all so pretty, hypnotized by the city
They lost sight of the reason, they
lost count of the days, and they were
Chorus:
Two souls searchin' for each other,
one spirit looking for the other
Caught between a hard hard place and a rock
Two souls
searchin' for heaven, rolling the dice, lookin' for a seven
To the tick - tick - tickin' of
time, gotta beat the clock
Too many nights on the ledge, he acquired a knife
edge
Still the city didn't acquiesce to his demands
Some nights she cried for pity in the
heart of the city
The city smacked her hands
He met her one endless night, her eyes
had a light
There was something familiar 'bout the smell of her skin
He held her tighter
and tighter as he danced inside her
She knew from the moment that she let him in, they'd been
chorus
Beat the clock, beat the clock, beat the
clock
(Solo)
chorus repeats 2x
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